College of Business and Economics | Annual Report 2020 27 researCh CaPaCiTY On the research capacity development front, the number of colleagues enrolled on the Accelerated Academic Mentoring Programme (AAMP) programme has increased from 72 in 2019 to 118 in 2020 (+39%). CBE colleagues are also actively involved in other mentoring programmes, such as the Future Professors Programme, offered at the university level. The CBE has continued to advance the affiliation of global scholars to increase the depth of our scholarly networks, which, coupled with the 18 members of staff who achieved their doctorates in 2020, have augmented research and supervision capacity. By the end of 2020, the College has 272 affiliated visiting scholars, 50 more than by end 2019. The number of PDRFs, too, has grown from 38 to 44. The CBE hosts 11 distinguished visiting professors, who on average, present Scopus field-weighted citation indices of 2.64, meaning that their publications have been cited 2.64 times more than the world average for similar publications. These esteemed scholars include Prof Angustin Fosu (University of Ghana), Prof Arnold Bakker (Erasmus University of Rotterdam), Prof Edward Lorenz (University of Notre Dame), Prof Eva Demerouti (Eindhoven University of Technology), Prof Frank Riedel (Bielefeld University), Prof Jarkko Saarinen (University Oulu), Prof Naresh Malhotra (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), Prof Robin Nunkoo (University of Mauritius), Prof Stefano Ponte (Copenhagen Business School), Prof Thomas Baum (University of Strathclyde) and Prof Ulrich Schmidt (University of Kiel). The aforementioned, coupled with the increased number of staff Prof Edward Lorenz Prof Naresh Maholtra Prof Ulrich Schmidt Prof Angustin Fosu Prof Frank Riedel Prof Stefano Ponte Prof Eva Demerouti Prof Robin Nunkoo Prof Arnold Bakker Prof Jarkko_Saarinen-kasvo Prof Thomas Baum
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